Many of you may know me, some of you may not, I usually hide in my thread only due to time constraints ( I work 75hrs per week ) and apologise for not getting to know the "newbies".

Soooo why am I here and posting today .... As you can see going by my thread, this is a call out. I need a challenge to kick my arse back into line and into gear. So Im calling out for all members who have 50kgs + to lose so that we can start our own challenge and rid ourselves of this weight once and for all. My only request is that you must have 50kgs or more to lose. to join this forum. It's a very hard and lonely road to travel when you have such a long way to go, so if we can jump on our way together to be there to support eachother and give eachother tips along the way, the burden will not be as heavy.

We'll set little mini goals along the way, Xmas, Valentines, Easter or we could just do monthly goals ... Im up for anything

So ladies, Im going to be completely honest, If i need a kick up the arse ... just kick it ... dont worry about upsetting me, Im on a see saw at the moment, where one day Im feeling you beaut, the next I just cant be bothered.

Every year I put on a few kilos. I've got to make this work and break the cycle. I need the external accountability (or as you called it, arse kicking) or I let things slide... then I put on more. Recently got up to 119 my heighest weight ever. I have just increased my ticker start weight and I hope this is the last time!

I want to weigh less at the end of this year than at the start. By sharing this journey if I can help support others, even better.

CW:115.5To lose: 50.5Xmas: 105

"Unknowingly, we plow the dust of the stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain."Ihab Hassan

I've had a cold for 3 weeks. It has gotten worse for the last week. I think I'm just burnt out. I feel like saying, "Poor little old me, why don't I have a ....., I deserve it." But I wont. Instead I think, "I want to lose weight, that is ridiculous" as soon as I think of weakening.

If you let yourself dwell on whether to have something or not it is torturing yourself and self sabotage.

"Unknowingly, we plow the dust of the stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain."Ihab Hassan

I weighed this morning and I'm now 115kg - my goal for the week so I'm happy.

The doctor was booked for days, but had a cancellation so I got an appointment this morning. YES! I really need some antibiotics - I'm hardly sleeping at night between running temperatures and coughing. I cant really exercise although I'm taking my old dog for a mini-walk each day. I'm looking forward to getting stuck into it soon.

"Unknowingly, we plow the dust of the stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain."Ihab Hassan

I know that we all have our own goals dates etc in mind, but do you think we can pick out a few of the major dates, like xmas, valentines day, easter, halloween etc that we can plan to have as common goal dates (I know our current one is xmas).

I ask this because then we can all pledge a goal for the date, such as xmas. Then I can track us all in an excel spreadsheet, because then I can tell each of us what our average loss needs to be over the entire period (from pledge date to goal date) and I can give a running average each week, i.e. this week I lost X, taking me to X which means in the X weeks left of this challenge I need to lose an average of X per week.

I have done this personally and it has really helped to put my personal challenes into perspective (i.e. are they even realistic from the start) but then also to help motivate me each week to reduce my weekly average.

It's just an idea, we could all make an official pledge using our weight as of this Saturday as our start, and the Saturday before xmas as our goal date (that leaves 8 weigh in weeks) - what do you say?